Testing the efficacy of culturally adapted coping skills training for Chinese American immigrants with type 2 diabetes using community-based participatory research.

• Autores: Catherine A. Chesla, Kevin M. Chun, Christine M.L. Kwan, Joseph T. Mullan, Yulanda Kwong, Lydia Hsu, Peggy Huang, Lisa A. Strycker, Tina Shum, Diana To, Rudy Kao, Catherine M. Waters
• Localización: Research in nursing and health, ISSN-e 1098-240X, Vol. 36, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 359-372
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Chinese Americans demonstrate greater prevalence of diabetes than non-Hispanic whites and find standard diabetes care disregards their cultural health beliefs. Academic researchers and Chinatown agencies collaborated to culturally adapt and test an efficacious cognitive-behavioral intervention using community-based participatory research. Using a delayed-treatment repeated-measures design, 145 adult Chinese immigrants with Type 2 diabetes completed treatment. Immediate benefits of treatment were evident in the improvement (p?